Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution

Posted by timothy on Monday October 4, 2004 @11:31PM from the peer-to-peer-peering dept.

satorchi writes " The Arecibo Observatory together with the European VLBI Network have used the internet to make a real-time transatlantic synthesis telescope. Data from the individual telescopes was transfered via the internet, and processed in real time by the central processing station at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe. 9 terabits were transfered during the 20 hour experiment, and the resulting synthesised telescope had a resolution of 20 milliarcseconds, about 5 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This level of detail is equivalent to picking out a small building on the surface of the Moon!"

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What about seeing a lunar lander? by BasilBrush · 2004-10-04 23:35 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Never mind a small building, come back to us when it can pick out something the size of a lunar lander on the moon. Then we'll finally be able to tell for sure if it was a hoax or not. Laser reflectors don't cut it. We need pictures.
Sarcasm by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 23:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

13.65 Mb/s is not exactly the fastest of transfer rates, why so slow?